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At the center of this picture are three triangles. The link they form is equivalent to the Boromean Rings featured in Not Knot. The smaller pictures in the upper left and right hand corners show two views of a set of four linked triangles. This picture was inspired by the sculptures of John Robinson and George Odom. The mathematical properties of these sculputures were brought to the artist's attention by H.S.M. Coxeter.

How to make it: Mathematica and Geomview

Image created: March 1996

Copyright © March 1996 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For permission to use this image, contact permission@geom.umn.edu.

External viewing: small (100x100 3k gif), medium (500x500 22k gif), or original size (954x954 42k tiff).

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Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:39 CDT 1998